Hi,
I'm Adam Young, one of the founders of Ringba. Throughout my life reading has been a catalyst for my growth and success. I fell in love with reading at a very young age and attribute much of my personal and professional growth to seeking out knowledge in the form of books.
Authors take an entire lifetime of disciplined study and experience in their field and reduce it down to a few hundred pages so we can learn from their mistakes without all the suffering. Great books are truly a gift and hopefully some of my favorites will help you on your journey.
I like to dig deep into subjects that are important to me so you will surly notice a theme of business, psychology, sales, marketing and technology, both new and old. It is by no means a complete list and I will do my best to update it over time.
Please post your recommendations in a similar format. None of the links below are affiliate links, and any posts with them will be removed.
Business
Biographies
History
Leadership
Psychology & the Mind
Other
Sales & Marketing
I'm Adam Young, one of the founders of Ringba. Throughout my life reading has been a catalyst for my growth and success. I fell in love with reading at a very young age and attribute much of my personal and professional growth to seeking out knowledge in the form of books.
Authors take an entire lifetime of disciplined study and experience in their field and reduce it down to a few hundred pages so we can learn from their mistakes without all the suffering. Great books are truly a gift and hopefully some of my favorites will help you on your journey.
I like to dig deep into subjects that are important to me so you will surly notice a theme of business, psychology, sales, marketing and technology, both new and old. It is by no means a complete list and I will do my best to update it over time.
Please post your recommendations in a similar format. None of the links below are affiliate links, and any posts with them will be removed.
Business
- 33 Strategies of War, 2007 - Robert Greene
- Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, 2009 - Bryan Burrough
- Creative Thinkers Toolkit, 2014 - The Great Courses (Audiobook)
- Critical Business Skills for Success, 2015 - The Great Courses (Audiobook)
- David and Goliath, 2015 - Malcom Gladwell
- Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most, 2010 - Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
- Effective Communication Skills, 2011 - The Great Courses (Audiobook)
- Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win, 2017 - Jocko Willink
- High Output Management, 1995 - Andrew S Grove
- How Google Works, 2017 - Jonathan Rosenburg
- How to Make Millions with your Ideas, 1996 - Dan Kennedy
- How to Win Friends and Influence People, 1936 - Dale Carnegie
- Merchants of Doubt, 2011 - Naomi Oreskes
- Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice, 2015 - Bill Browder
- Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't, 2014 - Verne Harnish
- Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, 2014 - Jeff Sutherland
- Strategic Thinking Skills, 2012 - The Great Courses (Audiobook)
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction, 2016 - Philip Tetlock, Dan Gardner
- The Art of Conflict Management: Achieving Solutions for Life, Work, and Beyond, 2010 - The Great Courses (Audiobook)
- The Art of Negotiating the Best Deal, 2014 - The Great Courses (Audiobook)
- The Art of War, 2016 (Translation) - Sun Tzu
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It - Michael Gerber, 2004
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, 2014 - Ben Horowitz
- The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, 2016 - Clayton Christensen
- King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone, 2012 - David Carey
- The 48 Laws of Power, 2000 - Robert Greene
- The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich, 2010 - Daniel Ammann
- The Predictioneer's Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future, 2010 - Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
- The Richest Man in Babylon, 2002 - George Clason
- The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron, 2013 - Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind
- Think and Grow Rich, 1937 - Napoleon Hill
- Thinking about Capitalism, 2008 - The Great Courses (Audiobook)
- Thinking Fast and Slow, 2013 - Daniel Kahneman
- Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers, 2016 - Timothy Ferriss
- Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation, 2010 - Metrick, Andrew
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, 2014 - Peter Thiel
Biographies
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, 2004 - Walter Isaacson
- Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose, 2013 - Tony Hsieh
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future - Ashlee Vance
- The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, 2009 - Alice Schroeder
- Steve Jobs, 2015 - Walter Isaacson
- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, 2015 - Brad Stone
- The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, 2015 - Walter Isaacson
- The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin, 2015 - Steven Lee Myers
History
- History's Greatest Voyages of Exploration, 2015 - The Great Courses (Audiobook)
- Masters of War: History's Greatest Strategic Thinkers, 2012 - The Great Courses (Audiobook)
- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, 2017 - Timothy Snyder
- The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics, 2011 - Bruce Bueno
- Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History, 2011 - The Great Courses (Audiobook)
Leadership
- Transformational Leadership: How Leaders Change Teams, Companies, and Organizations, 2013 - The Great Courses (Audiobook)
- Developing the Leader Within You, 2001 - John Maxwell
- Developing the Leaders Around You, 2005 - John Maxwell
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You, 2007 - John Maxwell
- The 5 Levels of Leadership: Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential, 2013 - John Maxwell
- Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones for Success, 2007 - John Maxwell
- Principles: Life and Work, 2017 - Ray Dalio
- The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization, 2011 - John Maxwell
- Attitude 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know, 2003 - John Maxwell
- Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds, 2015 - Carmine Gallo
Psychology & the Mind
- Behavioral Economics: When Psychology and Economics Collide, 2014 - The Great Courses (Audiobook)
- Civilization and Its Discontents, 1930 - Sigmund Freud
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Techniques for Retraining Your Brain, 2015 - The Great Courses (Audiobook)
- Conjoint Family Therapy, 1983 - Virginia Satir
- Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming, 1979 - Richard Bandler, John Grinder
- Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis, 1996 - Eric Berne
- Handbook of Social Psychology (2 Volume Set) 5th Edition - Susan Fiske
- Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World, 2010 - Alex (Sandy) Pentland
- Influence: Mastering Life's Most Powerful Skill, 2013 - The Great Courses (Audiobook)
- An Insiders Guide to Sub Modalities, 1969 - Richard Bandler
- Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, 1999 - Jordan B Peterson
- Ordeal Therapy: Unusual Ways to Change Behavior, 1984 - Jay Haley
- Peoplemaking, 1972 - Virginia Satir
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, 2010 - Dan Ariely
- Problem-Solving Therapy, 1991 - Jay Haley
- Psychology of Human Behavior, 2013 - The Great Courses (Audiobook)
- Reframing: Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the Transformation of Meaning, 1982 - Richard Bandler, John Grinder
- Scripts People Live: Transactional Analysis of Life Scripts, 1994 - Claude Steiner
- Strategies of Psychotherapy, 1963 - Jay Haley
- The Future of an Illusion, 1989 - Sigmund Freud
- The Great Ideas of Psychology, 2013 - The Great Courses (Audiobook)
- The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload - Daniel Levitin
- The Psychology of Revolution, 2014 - Gustave Le Bon
- The Structure of Magic, Vol. 1: A Book About Language and Therapy, 1976 - John Grinder, Richard Bandler
- The Structure of Magic II: A Book About Communication and Change, 1976 - John Grinder, Richard Bandler
- Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts--Becoming the Person You Want to Be, 2015 - Mark Reiter
- Uncommon Therapy: The Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D., 1993 - Jay Haley
- Understanding Priming Effects in Social Psychology, 2014 - Daniel Molden
- Understanding the Mysteries of Human Behavior, 2013 - The Great Courses (Audiobook)
- What do you say after you say hello?, 1973 - Eric Berne
- Your Best Brain: The Science of Brain Improvement, 2014 - The Great Courses (Audiobook)
Other
- 50th Law, 2009 - Robert Greene
- Atlas Shrugged, 1957 - Ayn Rand
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2007 - Malcom Gladwell
- Harrington on Hold 'em Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments, Vol. 1: Strategic Play, 2004 - Harrington
- How to Create a Mind, 2013 - Ray Kurzweil
- Mastery, 2013 - Robert Greene
- Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, 2012 - Joshua Foer
- Outliers: The Story of Success, 2011 - Malcom Gladwell
- The Fountainhead, 1943 - Ayn Rand
- The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology - Ray Kurzweil
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, 2002 - Malcom Gladwell
- Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel, 2002 - Rolf Potts
- What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, 2010 - Malcom Gladwell
Sales & Marketing
- CA$HVERTISING: How to Use More than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make Big Money Selling Anything to Anyone, 2008 - Drew Eric Whitman
- Customer Satisfaction Is Worthless, Customer Loyalty Is Priceless: How to Make Customers Love You, Keep Them Coming Back and Tell Everyone They Know, 1998 - Jeffery Gitomer
- Focus: The Future of Your Company Depends on It, 2005 - Al Ries
- Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, 2011 - Roger Fisher
- Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude, 2007 - Jeffrey Gitomer
- Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness, 2004 - Jeffrey Gitomer
- Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, 2002 - Noam Chomsky
- Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, 2000 - Al Ries, Jack Trout
- Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade, 2018 - Robert Cialdini
- Propaganda, 1928 - Edward Bernays
- Propaganda and the Public Mind, 2001 - Noam Chomsky
- Scientific Advertising, 2014 - Claude Hopkins
- Spam Kings: The Real Story behind the High-Rolling Hucksters Pushing Porn, Pills, and %*@# Enlargements, 2004 - Brian S McWilliams
- The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk!, 1994 - Al Ries & Jack Trout
- The Art Of Seduction, 2004 - Robert Greene
- The Sales Bible, New Edition: The Ultimate Sales Resource, 2014 - Jeffrey Gitomer
- Understanding Power, 2002 - Chomsky
- WAYMISH: Why are you making it so hard for me to give you my money?, 2000 - Ray Considine
- Who Rules the World?, 2016 - Noam Chomsky
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